Alien 3 and Golden Axe 2 bootlegs

A month ago, while I was visiting a flea market (precisely Stellata di Bondeno, province of Ferrara), I spotted a bunch of Mega Drive games that caught my eye because of how fishy they looked... And I ended up right: two of them were bootlegs!

I tried them, dumped them and quickly verified differences with the "official" versions.
Read the rest of the article if you want to know more :-)

Alien 3
The fakeness of this one is quite obvious even from a distance: the cover has no SEGA logo on it, not to mention the huge writing (in Chinese?) on the spine.

Additionally the cart further confirms what the cover suggests: no SEGA logo engraved on the back, Chinese characters printed on the sticker, cart with European form factor (and not Asian) and the pcb inside has the game stored inside an unknown chip covered by epoxy. Also, no manual inside (but this might have been thrown away by the previous owner).

I recorded a video of the game to show this version's peculiarities:

As you can see, all the introductory credits are crippled.

Golden Axe 2

The bootleggers tried harder with this one: there's even an "official" SEGA seal of quality printed on the cover! Pity it's hard to go unnoticed if you print "Genesis" on an European game (Genesis is the name of the Mega Drive console in U.S.A.).

The cart further confirms that it's not an import: no SEGA logo here either (and no screw holes if that even matters).

And here is a short gameplay video: this bootleg version has a glitchy "level selector" when you start the game (which lets the player start the game in the middle of a cutscene causing erratic behavior) and all the credits during the end of the game are replaced with strings like ABCDEF...